Samantha Sanchez

My House is a Circus,
an exhibition by Samantha Sanchez (Barquisimeto, Venezuela 1974), is
based on the dazzling acrobatics of an artist’s domestic universe as her
two young daughters appropriate very particular incarnations: a giraffe
and an elephant.

By appealing to
efficient graphic resources, the artist provides her unique perceptual
take on an iconographical style that was originally inspired by the
millenarian circus tradition and that had a grand impact on the
surrealists, transforming it into a playful piece inseparable from the
likes of an affectionate biography.The artist, then,
resembles a juggler who balances humor and tenderness with a sense of
amusement on the stage of a peculiar venue where domestic objects are no
different from those of a circus.In the slightness
and freshness of her strokes – that as she herself admits, “let
themselves get filled with pink,” like a house where little girls live –
lies a fantastic reflection that transgresses the tensions between the
nurture versus nature debate, and an expressive power that contains a
fragile line that can separate order from chaos among the universe of
all affectionate relationships.Like Chagall, who
saw in the circus a constant motive, the sense of love and vital
amusement are key in Samantha’s art. Her visual universe is connected to
the journeys of a couple – always adorned with long, striped socks –
that can emerge to infinity, or simply create a circus within that house
that art fills with a crowd of spectators.